pompousness

Other forms of pompousness

plural

pompousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pompousness

What does pompousness mean?

pompousness means "lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity".

How many syllables are in pompousness?

pompousness has 3 syllables: pom-pou-sness. The stress falls on "pom". In IPA it is /ˈpɑmpəsnəs/.

What is another word for pompousness?

Close synonyms include ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, puffiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pompousness a common word?

pompousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.